Measuring bucket or vessel



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- MEASURING BUGKET 0R VESSEL Original Filed Nov. 16. 1925 2 Sheets-Sheet l mvgmon ATTORNEV J Api'il l2 1927. 1,624,477

A. DAVIS, JR

MEASURING BUCKET 0R YESSEL Original Filed Nov. 16. 1925 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 INVENTOR ATTORNEY Patented Apr. 12, 1927.

UNITED;- STATES AUGUSTINE DAVIS, are, OF'CINCINNATI, OHIO.

PATENT OFFICE. f;

MEASURING BUCKET OR VESSEL.

Original application filed November 16, 1925, Serial No. 69,358. Divided and this application filed October 5, 1926. Serial No. 139,579.

The invention relates to metal buckets. The object is to provide an improved construction of the neck and pouring spout embodying a combination of features cooperating to improve the pouring qualities of the bucket.

In the accompanying drawings forming part hereof:

Fig. 1 is a side elevation of the upper part of a measuring bucket embodying the invention;

Fig. 2 is a vertical transverse section, en on the line 22 of Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is a plan view omitting the handle and the bracket ears therefor; and

Fig. 4 is a central longitudinal section through the spout member.

The shell of the bucket is marked 2; and 5 is an inwardly and upwardly sloping breast, having a flange at which receives and is welded to the upper portion of the shell.

The breast 5 has an elliptical opening surrounded by an upstanding neck flange 11, of substantial depth. The said flange and opening are formed eccentrically with reference to the flange 4 of the breast, that is to say the forward end of the ellipse is nearer the front of the can than the rear end of the ellipse is to the'back of the can. The corrugated slope 6 in consequence is steepest at the front of the breast, where it is approximately and decreases uniformly to the sides, where it is approximately 33, and continues around the back with substantially this angle.

Another sheet-metal piece of which the tak- ' bucket is composed consists of a neck and spout member 12. This member has a straight neck portion 13 of elliptical crosssection, which telescopes within the straight elliptical neck flange 11. Above the coinparatively short neck portion 13 the member is flared to form the generally elliptical spout portion 14. The top of this spout portion inclines upward from rear to front, and the edge 15 is rolled, this'rolled edge serving at the rear to receive a locking roll 16 on the edge of an overhanging splash guard 17 I y The neck and spout of the bucket have been'designed so as to incorporate a number of features working together to improve the pouring action. These are: The elliptical cross-section which has been mentioned, the gradual curve 21 from the straight neck into the flaring spout or lip, and the variation in the angle of flare between the pouring portion of the lip at the end of the ellipse, where, as seen in Fig. 4, 1t is'comparatively low, and the portions at the two sides of the ellipse, where, as seen in Fig. 2, it is quite steep. The first and third of these features are designed to throw the liquid into a narrower and more circular. form of stream than is the case with buckets having the ordinary form of neck and pouring lip, and the curve from the straight neck onto the lip assists in this respect by reducing the abruptness of the change of direction in the flow of the liquid as it passes from the straight neck into the flaring lip. The offsetting of the elliptical neck forwardly with respect to the center of the can itself also aids in producing the more nearly circular form of the stream which is delivered from the spout.

While the preferred embodiment ofthe invention has been described in some detail, it will be understood that the invention is not necessarily limited to the precise form and details since modifications will naturally suggest themselves tothe persons skilled in the art. This application is a division of my application filed November 16, 1925, Serial No. 69,358.

I claim: I

1. In a bucket, a straight pouring neck of elliptical area, and a flaring spout, the straight neck joining by gradual curve with the pouring lip of the spout, and the flare of the spout varying between a steep angle at the two sides of the ellipse-to a low angle at the forward portion of the pouring lip.

2. In a bucket, a body, a sloping breast, a neck of elliptical area offset forwardly with respect to the body and breast, and a flaring spout, the straight neck joining by a gradual curve with the pouring lip of the spout, and the flare of the spout varying between a steep angle at the two sides of the ing, said opening being set forwardly of the ellipse to 2L low angle at the forward porbreast in the direction of the major axis of 10 tion of the pouring lip. the ellipse, the angle of slope of the breast 3. In a bucket, the combination of a cylinvarying uniformly from a comparatively 5 drical shell, a sloping breast having a eylinsteep angle at the front of the ellipse to a drical flange joined with said shell and a lower angle at the sides. flanged elliptical top opening, it spent men1- I ber joined to said elliptical flanged open- AUGUSTINE DAVIS, JR. 

